Friends are born, not made.
Henry Adams Quotes
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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
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Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
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All experience is an arch, to build upon.
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I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.
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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
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Friends are born, not made.
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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.